Yes… my application name and database name do not match my standard of “everything should be able to be tracked from web to database via a name”

So of course being a guy who does Data Platform stuff – we’ll create the database first, then the app service then we’ll adjust our release in VSTS. These of course will be split over 2 or more blog posts.

Quick discussion on Tiers in Azure:

There are quite a few different pricing tiers available with Azure for aMicrosoft Azure SQL Database.

It allows us to select the capacity metrics that are relevant for our application, without paying too much than what we actually need. Switching between tier plans is very easy. If you have short periods of high performance demand, we can scale up our Azure SQL database to meet those demands. Later on, after the demand diminishes, we can scale the SQL database back down to a lower pricing tier, thus savings us costs.